gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in _cogl_pipeline_get_authority()

[Tobiasz Jarczyk]

Happened after starting system

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.7.92-0ubuntu1~raring2 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-15.25-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Thu Mar 28 18:27:02 2013
DisplayManager: gdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'buttons-have-icons' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'icon-theme' b"'ubuntu-mono-dark'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'menus-have-icons' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'toolkit-accessibility' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-06 (173 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fd2dc1dea34: testb $0x4,0x84(%rbx)
 PC (0x7fd2dc1dea34) ok
 source "$0x4" ok
 destination "0x84(%rbx)" (0x00000084) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.12
 cogl_pipeline_set_layer_wrap_mode () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.12
 st_theme_node_paint () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
 st_widget_paint_background () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-shell/libgnome-shell.so
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in cogl_pipeline_set_layer_wrap_mode()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-09 (19 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _cogl_pipeline_get_authority (difference=4, pipeline=0x0) at ./cogl-pipeline-private.h:577
 _cogl_pipeline_get_layer_with_flags (pipeline=pipeline@entry=0x0, layer_index=layer_index@entry=0, flags=flags@entry=(unknown: 0)) at ./cogl-pipeline.c:1700
 cogl_pipeline_set_layer_wrap_mode (pipeline=0x0, layer_index=0, mode=COGL_PIPELINE_WRAP_MODE_REPEAT) at ./cogl-pipeline-layer-state.c:595
 do_border_property (decl=<optimized out>, node=0x2c1c0e0) at st/st-theme-node.c:1176
 _st_theme_node_ensure_geometry (node=0x2c1c0e0) at st/st-theme-node.c:1396

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tobiasz Jarczyk (dotnokato-q)]

After upgrading system with packages from ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging gnome-shell no longer crashes.

[Olivier FAURAX (olivier-faurax)]

Same problem on 12.04 (LTS).
When trying to start gnome, the fallback ("gnome classic") is used.

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe7585700 (LWP 5753)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe6b7e700 (LWP 5754)]
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff304c9f8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.9
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff304c9f8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcogl.so.9
#1 0x00007ffff3521c84 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
#2 0x00007ffff3538c16 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff354433a in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
#4 0x00007ffff3544850 in clutter_init () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclutter-1.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff78d4196 in meta_init () from /usr/lib/libmutter.so.0
#6 0x00000000004015e7 in main ()
(gdb)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. I apologize that we are not always to respond to bug reports promptly. Ubuntu 13.04 reached End of Life in 2014. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.